Politics

Is Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake considering a primary challenge to President Trump in 2020?
A frequent Trump critic who is retiring from the Senate this fall, the politician is hinting that we might see a Jeff Flake 2020 campaign. "It has not been in my plans to run for president, but I have...

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin spent $1 million of taxpayer money in nine months to fly aboard military jets and didn't even try to take commercial flights, according to a new report by an ethics watchdog group.
Citing records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the...

There’s a lot of buzz around Donald Trump’s pick for CIA Director, but not all of it is positive. Gina Haspel is potentially the first woman ever to hold the role, should the Senate confirm her appointment. But she’s also comes with a past many are calling into question —...

I’ve long believed that most of us — if we were given exactly our way — would become unmitigated train wrecks. As we pursued our agendas completely unfettered by opposition, we would alienate friends and family. We would drive trusted advisers into exile. And we would find that...

United States Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, a product of private schools who advocates moving federal dollars from public to private schools, did not seem to know what a verb was on Tuesday.
DeVos tweeted out a graphic, designed like a dictionary entry, which encouraged her audience to “...

Don't everyone rush toward the exits at once. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson isn't the only member of the the Trump administration departing today: Trump's personal assistant was fired for an "unspecified security issue" this morning, and Tillerson's undersecretary was...

Following the greatest reality show on earth, the 2016 presidential election, there aren’t many things that surprise us anymore. Real estate mogul and reality TV host Donald Trump became No. 45 after beating out a slew of seasoned politicians and other celebrities are having ideations of...

Campaign Donald is uncaged again.
I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking: When was he ever caged? Well, compared to the wild man who turned up over the weekend in Moon Township, Pennsylvania — yes, that’s really the name — the character who’s been seething...

Dennis Rodman has praised President Trump's sudden announcement that he would meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Normally, that might not be newsworthy. But the former NBA star is one of only two people in the world who've met both Trump and Kim.
“Well done President...

Another one of President Trump's Cabinet members has taken a free-spending approach to taxpayer money on job-related expenses, a new report says.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke spent $139,000 last year on construction of what a work order calls "Secretary's Door," the Associated...

Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was our nation’s first female Speaker of the House — and so far, she’s the only woman who’s ever been in that role, serving from 2007 to 2011. Pelosi donated her mighty Speaker’s gavel to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American...

Former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg has greeted a subpoena to testify in the Russia investigation with the kind of diplomatic flair legends are made of. “Screw that,” he told CNN. “Why do I have to go? For what?”
Nunberg, who says he has already spent several hours...

It would be easy for any top executive of a fortune 500 company to take advantage of the way our economy favors the ultra rich. But Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes believes that the issue of income inequality in our country is one that needs to be addressed by those who benefit from this “...

Conor Lamb is the Democratic candidate for Congress in Pennsylvania's 18th District. The 33 year old is making news for running an unusually tight race in a traditional Republican district, significantly outraising his GOP opponent in a special election that will be decided on March 13.
Who is...

Jean-Claude Juncker put it best, with just the right amount of Euro condescension for America’s cloddish president. “We can also do stupid,” the chief of the European Commission said.
Juncker is one of many sane people, inside and outside the United States, who are shaking their...

Bernie Sanders' son, Levi Sanders, just announced he's running for Congress, and he's bringing some familiar-sounding drama to New Hampshire.
Levi Sanders, Bernie's son by his former girlfriend, announced his candidacy for the state's First congressional district, and is "...

The ongoing feud that has pitted Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump against White House Chief of Staff John Kelly reached a fever pitch earlier this week. Kelly reportedly have President Trump a thinly-veiled ultimatum through a suggested demotion of the Jared Kushner security level. So, does Jared...

Easily disgusted by the smell of body odor? You’re more likely to be a Trump supporter, according to a recent study from Stockholm University, which examine the connection between sensitivity to different body odors and political attitudes.
According to Science Daily, disgust is an essential...

A senior HUD official says she was demoted after refusing to illegally exceed the budget to redecorate Secretary Ben Carson's office.
Helen Foster filed a complaint with the Office of the Special Counsel, the Guardian reported on Tuesday. In the complaint, Foster said that in January 2017,...

School shootings might be considered a crisis by much of the American public at the moment, but the issue wasn't enough to hold the attention of Trump adviser Stephen Miller on Monday afternoon, when he seemed to fell asleep during a White House meeting with the nation's governors on the...